A sudden dust storm blinds a group of sentries who disinter a dead body in this work, after which the title character appears and curses them for defying the gods. That title character is told that she will usurp the king's manhood if he grants her clemency for defying him, and he orders his men to tie up the title character and her sister so they will "act like women." The king's son, Haemon, betrothed to the title character, beseeches his father for mercy for her, and later kills himself in his attempt to kill his father after they have discovered the title character has hanged herself in the cave in which she was sentenced to live burial for her attempt to properly bury her brother Polyni
A sudden dust storm blinds a group of sentries who disinter a dead body in this work, after which the title character appears and curses them for defying the gods. That title character is told that she will usurp the king's manhood if he grants her clemency for defying him, and he orders his men to tie up the title character and her sister so they will "act like women." The king's son, Haemon, betrothed to the title character, beseeches his father for mercy for her, and later kills himself in his attempt to kill his father after they have discovered the title character has hanged herself in the cave in which she was sentenced to live burial for her attempt to properly bury her brother Polynices. So goes, FTP, the plot of what work by Sophocles about the daughter of Oedipus?
A sudden dust storm blinds a group of sentries who disinter a dead body in this work, after which the title character appears and curses them for defying the gods.
{Antigone}